The past decade has borne witness to the transformation of South Africa's natural
resources law with the introduction of a new legal concept, that of "public
trusteeship", to South African jurisprudence. The concept of ...

Effective legal redress against unlawful building works or construction activities can
be an elusive target. Given the desirability of legal certainty attached to
administrative decisions in terms of which building plans ...

In the Netherlands, the 2010 Crisis and Recovery Act aims at speeding up decisionmaking
on a wide variety of activities, hoping that after the financial and economic
crisis has passed, development projects can immediately ...

A number of alternative environmental enforcement tools are available that may be
used to enhance the environmental enforcement effort in South Africa. Current
debate focuses on which tools work effectively and the reasons ...

Despite the broadening of locus standi in environmental cases by both Section 38 of
the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and Section 32 of the National
Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998, two ...

In mid-2006, new Regulations governing environmental impact assessment were
published in terms of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998. It is
argued in this article that the old Regulations under the ...